Martha Terry

Teaching your horse to rein-back from the ground establishs good manners, engages your horse’s hind end and release tensions to relax your horse

Try this simple polework exercise to improve your horse’s canter quality. It will help with balance and rhythm, and will help you see a distance

Try this super-simple halting exercise to improve your horse’s responsiveness when riding transitions. You don’t need an arena, you can do this anywhere.

This figure of eight jumping exercise, which can also be ridden as poles on the ground, will help you master changes of canter lead over fences

Try this simple flatwork exercise to prevent cutting corners. It’s perfect if you’re preparing for a dressage test and need to ride more accurate corners.

Try this spiral circle exercise to stop you getting stuck in a rut of riding aimless 20m circles. It will improve suppleness, engagement and focus

Carl Hester reflects on having two top-quality horses winning at grand prix after new ride Monet makes his debut at the level

Use just four poles to structure a simple groundwork session with seven different exercises to help your horse build strength and improve suppleness

Try this exercise when you’re next hacking to improve your transitions and check your horse is listening to you in a distracting environment

Paces will typically improve as your horse strengthens and you can use this fan pole exercise to help them develop further